Dictionary

Drug-Related Street Slang

Bellow you will find an ongoing, ever-changing list of drug-related street slang. This list is by no means complete and, considering evolving trends and changing times, I doubt that it will ever be even close to complete. However, it should provide enough words for parents, guardians or teachers to pick up on what's being said. Maybe if you listen to your kids you'll get an idea of what kind of people they're hanging out with. Yes, I advise you to listen in when they don't think you're paying attention.

• 420 - Marijuana use
• 51 - Combination of crack cocaine with marijuana or tobacco
• Ad - PCP; drug addict
• Agonies - Withdrawal symptoms
• All lit up - Under the influence of drugs
• All star - User of multiple drugs
• Amp head - LSD user
• Amped - High on amphetamines
• Amped-out - Fatigue after using amphetamine
• Amping - Accelerated heartbeat
• Author Doctor - who writes illegal prescriptions
• Babe Drug - used for detoxification
• Baby habit - Occasional use of drugs
• Babysit - Guide someone through first drug experience
• Back door - Residue left in a pipe
• Bag - Container for drugs; a package of drugs, usually marijuana or heroin; a person's favorite drug
• Bag man - Person who transports money; a person who supplies narcotics or other drugs, a pusher
• Bagging - Using inhalants
• Banana split - Combination of 2C-B (Nexus) with other illicit substances, particularly LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)
• Bang - Inhalants; to inject a drug
• Banging - Under the influence of drugs
• Base - head A person who bases
• Based out - To have lost control over basing
• Beamer - Crack smoker
• Belushi - Combination of cocaine and heroin
• Bender - Drug party
• Blanks - Low quality drugs
• Blast - Cocaine; Smoke crack; Marijuana; smoke marijuana or crack
• Blasted - Under the influence of drugs
• Bling bling - Methamphetamine
• Blow - Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; to inject heroin
• Blow a fix/blow a shot - Injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin
• Blow the vein - To inject a drug
• Blue - Crack Cocaine; depressants; OxyContin
• Boost - to steal; to inject a drug
• Boot - To inject a drug
• Booted - Under the influence of drugs
• Boy - Heroin
• Boy-girl - Heroin mixed with cocaine
• Bugged - Irritated; to be covered with sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles
• Bummer - Unsettling and threatening experience from PCP intoxication
• Bump - Crack; fake crack; cocaine; boost a high; hit of ketamine ($20)
• Bump up - Use of cocaine to bolster MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
• Burned out - Collapse of veins from repeated injections; permanent impairment from drug abuse
• Burnout - Heavy abuser of drugs
• Buzz - Under the influence of drugs
• Candy-  sticks Marijuana cigarettes laced with powdered cocaine
• Cap-  Crack Cocaine; LSD; a capsule of a drug
• Carry - To be in posession of drugs
• Chasing the tiger - To smoke heroin
• Chipper - Occasional user; occasional heroin user; occasional Hispanic user
• Chipping - Using drugs occasionally
• Choco-fan - Heroin
• Coasting - Under the influence of drugs
• Cocktail - Combination of crack and marijuana; cigarette laced with cocaine or crack; partially smoked marijuana cigarette inserted in regular cigarette; to smoke cocaine in a cigarette
• Cold turkey - Sudden withdrawal from drugs
• Cooker - To inject a drug; person who manufactures methamphetamine
• Cotton - The cotton filter to strain heroin through
• Cotton fever - Critically high temperature associated with accidentally injecting cotton fibers into blood stream
• Crack Kits - Glass pipe and copper mesh
• Cracker jack - Crack smoker
• Cranking up - To inject a drug
• Crash - Sleep off effects of drugs
• Dirties - Marijuana cigarettes with powder cocaine added to them
• Disease - Drug of choice
• Dope fiend - A person who is drug dependent; crack adict
• Draw up - To inject a drug
• Drop - To swallow drugs
• Fast - Methamphetamine
• Fiend - Someone who smokes marijuana alone
• Fire - Crack and methamphetamine; to inject a drug
• Fix To inject a drug
• Flipping - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
• Flying - Under the influence of drugs
• Gangster - Marijuana; person who uses or manufactures methamphetamine
• Garbage heads - Users who buy crack from street dealers instead of cooking it themselves
• Getting glassed - To snort methamphetamine
• Gun - To inject a drug; needle; hypodermic needle
• Gutter - Vein into which a drug is injected
• Gutter junkie - Addict who relies on others to obtain drugs
• Gym candy - Steroids
• Highbeams - The wide eyes of a person on crack
• Hit the main line - To inject a drug
• Hit the needle - To inject a drug
• Hitting up - To inject a drug
• Hooked - Addicted
• Hopped up - Under the influence of drugs
• Huffer - Inhalant abuser
• Huffing - To sniff an inhalant
• Hugs and Kisses - Combination of methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
• Jack - Steal someone else's drugs
• Jack-up - To inject a drug
• Junkie - Addict
• Junkie kits - Glass pipe and copper mesh
• La Chiva - ("goat") Heroin
• Lady - Cocaine; heroin
• Legal speed - Over the counter asthma drug; trade name-MiniThin
• Little boy - Heroin
• Loaded - High
• Mainliner - Person who injects into the vein
• Meth head - Methamphetamine regular user
• Meth monster - One who has a violent reaction to methamphetamine
• OCs - OxyContin
• Old navy - Heroin
• On a mission - Searching for crack and/or being high on crack
• Os - OxyContin
• Ox - OxyContin
• P and P - Methamphetamine used in combination with MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and Viagra
• Pipe - Crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a drug is injected; mix drugs with other substances
• Primo - Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana
• Puffer - Crack smoker
• Pumpers - Steroids
• Pusher - Metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue out of crack stems; one who sells drugs
• Rave - All night dance parties frequently designed to enhance a hallucinogenic experience through music and lights
• Rock star - Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack; a person who uses rock cocaine
• Satch cotton - Fabric used to filter a solution of narcotics before injection
• Serial speedballing - Sequencing cocaine, cough syrup, and heroin over a 1-2 day period
• Sextasy - Ecstasy used with Viagra
• Sharps - Hypodermic needles
• Shooting gallery - Place where drugs are used
• Shot - To inject a drug; an amount of cocaine; 10 shot or 20 shot
• Skin popping - Injecting drugs under the skin; to inject drugs on any part of the body without hitting a vein
• Slam - To inject a drug
• Slanging - Selling drugs
• Snorting - Using inhalant
• Speed freak - Habitual user of methamphetamine
• Speedballing - To shoot up or smoke a mixture of cocaine and heroin; ecstasy mixed with ketamine; the simultaneous use of a stimulant with a depressant
• Speedballs-nose-style - The practice of snorting cocaine
• Spoon - 1/16 ounce of heroin; paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection
• Stash - To hide drug
• Stash Place - to hide drugs
• Stoned - Under the influence of drugs
• Strung out - Heavily addicted to drugs
• Super X - Combination of methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
• Tools - Equipment used for injecting drugs
• Tracks - Marks and scars from injecting drugs
• Tweak mission - A person on a mission to find crack
• Tweaker - Crack user looking for drugs on the floor after a police raid
• Tweaking - Drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed; desperately searching for crack
• Twists - Small plastic bags of heroin secured with a twist tie
• Wasted - Under the influence of drugs; murdered
• Works - Equipment for injecting drugs
• Zombie - PCP; heavy user of drugs
• Zonked - Extremely high on drugs

That's all I've got so far. But this is an ongoing project and I expect as time goes on, the list will grow on as well.

If you find any errors or would like to see a term  included which is  not yet listed, please leave your input in form of a comment at the bottom of the page.